Sale: Nomos 9, Lot: 30. Estimate CHF5500.  Closing Date: Monday, 20 October 2014.  Sold For CHF5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Central Europe. Boii. first half of the 1st century BC. Stater (Gold, 16mm, 6.69 g), minted in the area of western and southwestern Slovakia as well as in northern Burgenland. Irregular convex bulge ornamented with a ‘hand’ and a globule. Rev. Concave, sea-shell shaped pattern with grain to right. Dembski 530. Flesche 477. Paulsen pl. 18, 378 (same dies). Rare. Toned. Extremely fine.

From the Cologny Collection, ex Hess-Divo 307, 7 June 2007, 1426 and Münzen und Medaillen FPL 427 (1990), 54.